Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
MATSUO BASHOWhen composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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